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...getting as much out of the clubs as the clubs were getting out of them; besides, the owners claimed, paying all the acts - a dozen or more a night - would have been financially prohibitive. But for Mitzi, the issue of whether to pay the talent was more personal. She saw her club as a college of comedy, an "artists' colony," and it wasn't just her bottom line that would suffer if that talent were to earn a few bucks for their effort. It was the very integrity of the art form...
...break, so it made me more inconsistent,” Gil said. “As the day went on I did start to loosen up a little more and the distance of my run increased, which is good.” The women’s squad also saw a trio of second-place finishers. Stanton cleared 3.65 meters in the pole vault, a season-best, while fellow senior Danielle Mirabal took second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.80 seconds. Junior Elissa Reidy took second in the triple jump with a personal-best 11.85 meters...
...left side and the freshman lifted a shot over Lacina’s glove for the fifth goal of her rookie season. Lacina, who finished with 39 stops, 16 of them in the opening frame, got the start in lieu of regular Big Green goalie Carli Clemis and saw her goals-against average rise from a sparkling 0.60 to a more pedestrian 1.39. “She came up with some huge saves,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said of Lacina. “The first period it was continuous. We could have had four goals...
...critics never understood that his nastiness helped make him a successful mayor. He never spent much time worrying whether reporters or interest groups or The People loved him. ("If people like my personality, thank you," he fumed to a room full of reporters the first time I saw him in action. "If you don't, I really don't care.") He wanted a city that worked, and he pursued that goal with a take-no-prisoners combativeness that sometimes bordered on mania, calling out his enemies - and sometimes his allies - as "jerky" and "idiotic" and "silly" and "very, very jerky...
...road in southwestern Guizhou province, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. Some 80 million people have been affected by the storm, 1 million of them having had to be relocated. Damage, including the collapse of 100,000 houses, is estimated at $3 billion. Central Hunan province, which saw its heaviest snowfall in half a century, was the worst hit, with $1.5 billion in damage and 29 million affected, the state-run China Daily reported. Shanghai closed four expressways, and the cancellation of 2,000 buses and nearly 100 flights left thousands stranded...